Public Transit in the GTA, Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow

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Open houses on new Barrie Transit route nework, April 12, 14

Earlier this year Barrie City Council approved a plan to dramatically transform Barrie Transit by running buses more frequently on major roads, extending service hours, and creating more direct routes — starting mid-2013.

Next week, the City of Barrie is hosting three open houses about how it plans to adjust Barrie Transit service over the next few years.

The City recently finished studying its transit services, extensively consulting with members of the public, business operators and others in Barrie. Through citizen satisfaction surveys in 2008 and 2011, residents indicated that transit was a service that was highly important to them, but which seldom satisfied them.

As a result, the study team developed a plan for improving service to answer Barrie’s growing needs for better transit now and in the near future.

Barrie Transit will change from focusing on a single downtown terminal to one that serves multiple transit hubs in different parts of the city. Buses operating along different routes double up on major roads, resulting in 15-minute rush-hour service on many of Barrie’s busiest streets, instead of the current 30-minute service today.

The new plan lets riders to get to more destinations without changing buses. Barrie Transit will also establish a “real-time” passenger information system, allowing riders to get information about bus locations, status and departures from specific transit stops — using a variety of information methods.

This is your chance to let City staff know what you think of the plan. During these open house meetings, you’ll learn more about

the main features of the new transit network;

details on the exact routing and the frequency of service along each route of the new network.

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